I notice that the Sparkling Wine (American) video linked above has a companion video, about opening Champagne (French) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QEgLXodM1g), which is also funny, if a bit less dramatic.
Other articles about this critical survival skill have claimed that different manufactures of wine bottle break in different ways, specifically warning against trying it with American champagne. So the origin of the wine is not merely tangential information.
Thank you, Internet, for blessing me with your endless bounty of trivia!
But are you doing your part to privatize the Zombie Champagne Bottle Hunting NOW????
Ok, so maybe holing up in the crib for three straight days of StarCraft, Inuyasha, and Christopher Hitchen's "God Is Not Great" after the Psycho Trauma of "Omega Man" may not have been a good work around...
When I went to cancun a few years ago, I noticed all the bartenders would open beer bottles with a knife, in a similar fashion. So of course, when I get home, I want to do this trick myself. The results were not as dramatic as the "ugly american" video, but still a failure nonetheless. I have tried to open a beer bottle with a knife exactly two times, and probably never again. I may try the sabre tho, if I ever get one.
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Date: 2007-09-04 06:12 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-09-05 03:06 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-09-08 01:07 am (UTC)Thank you, Internet, for blessing me with your endless bounty of trivia!
help me out here...
Date: 2007-09-05 12:47 am (UTC)Do follks not understand the differences between a Sabre and a french knife???
Hello????
Didn't any of you folks survive both Close Combat Knife Work, and Fencing Class??? Or are you all just victims of a Liberal Arts Education????
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Date: 2007-09-05 01:30 am (UTC)Privatize Zombie Champagne Bottle Hunting Now....
Date: 2007-09-05 01:35 am (UTC)Ok, so maybe holing up in the crib for three straight days of StarCraft, Inuyasha, and Christopher Hitchen's "God Is Not Great" after the Psycho Trauma of "Omega Man" may not have been a good work around...
Re: help me out here...
Date: 2007-09-05 08:54 pm (UTC)Re: help me out here...
Date: 2007-09-05 09:04 pm (UTC)it's nothing personal.
he just doesn't think you are the biggest bubbly bottle of champagn ever!!!
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